4/30/2021 Thought for Today
Apr 30, 2021 19:31:18 #
Big A wrote:
If you REALLY want her to change
her attitude on retirement, then you should try and get HER hooked on fishing !
her attitude on retirement, then you should try and get HER hooked on fishing !
She used to surf fish with me. Even had her own rod. Went with me in a boat once and git seasick. Hasn't fished with me since.
Apr 30, 2021 20:24:37 #
Flytier wrote:
She used to surf fish with me. Even had her own rod. Went with me in a boat once and git seasick. Hasn't fished with me since.
Then you either fish from shore,
or GET (INTO) A BIGGER BOAT !
Believe me, I KNOW about motion sickness ! Spent time 'chumming'
on nearly every saltwater party boat
I've ever been on ! As a kid, I couldn't ride 10 minutes across town in the back seat of a car without a 'chum
bag' in my hands (or hollering for dad to 'pull over - NOW') !
May 1, 2021 08:08:22 #
Dehy wrote:
Just like you need to plan for your financial needs in retirement you need to plan for your social needs. Retirement takes some adjustment after getting up and going to work every day. So a person needs to develop the skills to do the things they enjoy whether it is fishing, hunting, golf, hiking, biking, sewing to really enjoy those activities.
Remember everyday is Saturday except Sunday, go to church to worship the creator after enjoying his creation.
Remember everyday is Saturday except Sunday, go to church to worship the creator after enjoying his creation.
Amen brother. That's my attitude about it. Give thanks and all Honor and Glory to God for givin me the ability to keep on keepin on. I try not to fish more than 4 days a week now. But some weeks I can't help myself and have to go a 5th day.
May 1, 2021 22:06:59 #
Now and again, I get together with the guys I used to work with. Every time, when they talk about work, I wind up saying the same thing: DANG, I'm glad I'm retired!
After I retired, my point of view changed. While I was working I was like a lot of guys: I pretty much thought of who I was in terms of what I was doing. Now when I look back at all the jobs I've had, all the work I've done, all the building of a career - - suddenly that's all just stuff I did to get to here! My life really began the first morning that the alarm clock didn't go off!
After I retired, my point of view changed. While I was working I was like a lot of guys: I pretty much thought of who I was in terms of what I was doing. Now when I look back at all the jobs I've had, all the work I've done, all the building of a career - - suddenly that's all just stuff I did to get to here! My life really began the first morning that the alarm clock didn't go off!
May 1, 2021 23:18:49 #
plumbob wrote:
Granted it took getting to the retirement years to get to this mode and now a whole new outlook on life is upon my thoughts.
My suggestion to you all in the working world, “ Don’t wait for Retirement “ Do it Now.
My suggestion to you all in the working world, “ Don’t wait for Retirement “ Do it Now.
Good advice.
May 2, 2021 06:09:59 #
Sometimes life just has a way making sure that your retirement plans and choices get flushed right down the toilet. You get up every day knowing you have to get your 64 year old body to do 10 hours of work that just will wear you down more. And then you have days like tonight when the knee says you ain't climbing that ladder tonight. The younger kids see your predicament and come help. Makes me feel ashamed when I can't do my job. Looking out long term and not being able to see a day I can ever retire I can't find any motivation to want to live a lot longer. I've noticed that I often do things with a sense of "I'm glad I did that before I die." I'm truly happy for anyone that is retired. Let me tell that you are blessed. And anyone that could retire but doesn't? Well, I'm not going to pretend like I should tell them what the best decision is for them. The only advice I can offer to the younger folks is to invest heavily in your retirement. I invested just enough to have a comfy retirement but not even close to enough to over come a divorce at my age. It's that stinking curve ball life throws at some of us that you never see coming. Keep that in mind so you don't end up like me. Finally my advice to those that could but don't is to remember the universal principles. The ones etched in stone, so much a fact that no man or woman has ever been able to defy or change them. Every second lived is a second you never get back. And our timeline starts when we are born and ends when we die. Every day we live moves us closer to death. I can't imagine a person lies in their deathbed thinking and wishing they spent more time at work. More likely it will be a sorrow at all the time lost in the first principle above not spent doing the things that make us feel genuine joy, love, and purpose. Excuse me for rambling on today. The blues have me in a headlock and I don't know how to play the saxaphone.
May 2, 2021 06:44:40 #
Barnacles wrote:
Now and again, I get together with the guys I used... (show quote)
Well said Barnacles, last sentence should be a new definition for the word Retirement.
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